Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy Q1. What are the factors that likely explain the equity and its reported book value of equity? Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 1999 Market Capitalisation: USD 460 Billion Book Value: USD 28 Billion MVE more than 16 times of BVE! Factor 1 Question 1 2 3 4 5 6 Intangible Assets • BVE does not reflect certain intangible assets’ value such as brand‚ customer loyalty‚ and human capital – Likely to provide tremendous earnings growth
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Group Case Study “Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy” Microsoft’s Financial Reporting Strategy ABSTRACT 2 This case study examines the factors explaining the difference between Microsoft’s market value of equity to book value of equity and overall financial reporting strategies employed at the firm. We analyzed financial information dating from 1985 to 1999 and 2011 annual report provided by Microsoft. We found factors explaining market value of equity are perceived risk and future cash
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What is a Spreadsheet? Honestly‚ when I first started this assignment‚ I really didn’t know what a spreadsheet was‚ etc. So I started at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet. I read that and got a good base of spreadsheets and the history. First of all‚ Microsoft Excel is the industry standard in spreadsheets (history on spreadsheets can be accessed at the above website address). With Excel‚ you can create a shared workbook and place it on a network location where several people can edit‚
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electronic spreadsheets‚ accountants relied heavily on manual calculations for financial reports‚ budgetary projections‚ incomplete records accounting ect. As Ballantine explains‚ “much valuable time had been spent on repetitive calculations [...] if one or more input values were altered and the entire worksheet had to be recalculated manually.” (1991‚ p.204). Today the same logic behind manual worksheets apply but with the added power of spreadsheets. The development of electronic spreadsheet programs
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Getting Started in Excel Many of the editing tools that you use in Excel are similar to Word and PowerPoint You will need to become familiar with a few new things for Excel: Rows‚ Columns‚ Various Formulas‚ and Charts just to name a few When you see a reference such as A7‚ A is the column and 7 is the row‚ this will give you the particular cell that is being referenced. You will learn that you can click or enter in information when it comes to cells and formulas. Everyone will have their own
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How to Use a Data Spreadsheet: Excel One does not necessarily have special statistical software to perform statistical analyses. Microsoft Office Excel can be used to run statistical procedures. Although in some respects Excel is not as preferable for data analyses as IBM SPSS‚ it is very userfriendly with simpler statistical procedures. This appendix describes how to use Excel to execute basic statistical calculations. Data from the 2004 version of the General Social Survey (GSS) is used for
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Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) - Financial and Strategic SWOT Analysis Review Reference Code: GDTC22599FSA One Microsoft Way Redmond‚ WA 98052-6399 United States Phone Fax Website Exchange www.microsoft.com MSFT [NASDAQ] +1 425 8828080 Revenue Net Profit Employees Industry Publication Date: FEB 2012 69‚943 (million USD) 23‚150 (million USD) 90‚000 Technology Communications and Company Overview Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) is one of the leading providers of software and storage products and
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Chapter Introduction to Microsoft Excel A spreadsheet is a computer program that turns the computer into a very powerful calculator. Headings and comments can be entered along with detailed formulas. The spreadsheet screen is divided into ROWS and COLUMNS; the intersection between a row and a column is termed a CELL. Usually only a small section of the overall spreadsheet is displayed on the screen. 1 The Microsoft Excel Screen 1 Load Microsoft Excel and you should receive the following
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Assignment | Cost of Capital‚ Capital Budgeting and Financial Planning | Chapter(s) | 9‚ 10‚ 12 | Group Name | | Student Name(s) | | Date | | Instructions: HW Assignments will be uploaded to Kean Blackboard and must be accessed from there. You must work in groups where assigned (or independently if not assigned to groups) on homework assignments. Points are noted against each question. You are required to submit Home Work assignments electronically on Kean Blackboard using MS-Office
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How to Make Really Nice Graphs Using Microsoft Excel 2011 Data Entry: Enter your data into Excel in column form such as the following: Horizontal Variable Name x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 Uncertainties ∆x1 ∆x2 ∆x3 ∆x4 ∆x5 ∆x6 Vertical Variable Name y1 y2 y3 y4 y5 y6 Uncertainties ∆y1 ∆y2 ∆y3 ∆y4 ∆y5 ∆y6 For example‚ if you are measuring the length of a spring under the application of a force‚ the table might look like this: Position (m) ∆Position (m) 0.595 0.612 0.631 0.649 0.667 0.686 0.001 0.001 0
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